Tips

Honing your leadership skills is a must if you're a startup founder. Pamela Odukoya from Toastmasters International shares some tips to help you do just that. As a startup founder you are putting yourself into a leadership role from day one.  What style of leadership will you adopt to set the tone for your new venture?  My leadership career has covered seventeen years to date. I view...
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Getting up to speed with all that entrepreneurship entails is a must. These tips outline some of the best ways of doing just that. If you’re thinking of launching your own start-up and venturing into the world of business, there are a number of ways to help make sure you’re ready to take on the journey. Equipping yourself with knowledge of business ownership and how to be an entrepr...
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About to start recruiting for your small business? Here are a few basic tips to help you hire the best staff. Hiring the right support staff can be crucial to the success of any business. When hiring staff for your small business, you want to find candidates that will have a passion for your business and become a champion for your company. Onboarding the wrong staff members can create tension, ...
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Concerned that a professional you've hired has actually caused problems for your business? These tips will help you address just that. When running a business, it's very common to consider working with other businesses to further your company's success. Whether working with a financial advisor to figure out useful financial options for your business or working with an architect or building firm...
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Want to become more time-conscious? Ian Child, time management expert, trainer and author of "Your Own Personal Time Machine" shares some insights on why outsourcing may help. Forty-two, as you may already know, is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything – so says the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And it seems Douglas Adams may have been onto so...
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Spring Cleaning shouldn't just be done at home. Kat Byles, Founder, True Business School shares some insights on the benefits of spring cleaning your business too. You may believe that because you’re running a new business that you don’t have clutter to deal with. But think about how much time and effort went into conceiving, funding and launching that business – you’ve ...
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New research by creative services marketplace, Voices reveals why more businesses should start a podcast to grow their audience online. With podcasts offering higher engagement rates than many other forms of communication, these tips to help you get your business podcast up and running should help. Establish your audience With podcasts offering higher engagement rates than many other forms of...
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Got an early stage SaaS startup? These tips on launching, selling and maintaining your SaaS solution are well worth a look... If you want to offer a unique solution to the marketplace in the form of a SaaS business, you have many tough challenges in front of you. One of the biggest is explaining a solution to a problem many people may not even know existed. You then have all the challenges that...
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  Joe Fernandes, founder and CEO of award-winning navigation platform, BuzzStreets, shares insights on how indoor wayfinding can help businesses be greener. Everyone starting a new commercial project knows that it is a good idea to incorporate sustainability and environmental considerations into their business. Depending on the nature of the business, there a variety of things entrepreneurs...
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Want to manage your business expenses more effectively? Check out these practical tips which should help... Running a start-up organisation is always going to be a hard task, but in 2022, this is made more difficult by the tough corporate world we live in.  Start-up businesses face many challenges as they work to grow and prosper in today’s competitive corporate landscape. As such,...
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Tom Britton, Co-founder of Syndicate Room shares insights on the continued popularity of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). Since the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) was launched in 1994, it has raised more than £24bn, and benefited 32,965 individual companies. But is the scheme still popular among investors today, and if so, what are the main attractions? EIS and VCT are going s...
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An overview of just a few of the reasons as to why SEO ought to be high on the agenda for you and your startup For the uninitiated, SEO either sounds like a jiu jitsu move in martial arts or something you don’t want to catch. Fortunately, it’s far more positive and can help your start-up to grow over the long term, rather than flame out in the short term.  Here is why SEO shou...
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